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A LITERACY EVENT

Purpose: This assignment is designed to encourage a personal reflection on your literacy history and to help you

gain insight into your own formation as a literate individual--in other words, your development as a reader, writer,

and thinker. As you engage in the invention process of writing, examine in specific detail successes and failures,

intellectual growth or lack thereof, and try to understand an aspect of your evolution as a literate person. Perhaps

most important, this should be a step toward coming to terms with the process of becoming literate.Assignment: Describe a literacy event or experience that you consider noteworthy or representative in yourdevelopment as a literate person.

You may want to explore a special problem or roadblock you encountered or a moment of revelation or success that

was significant to you (particularly in retrospect). You may want to think about definitions (of text, reading,

writing, writer, composition, literacy) that you developed on your own (in the context of this event) or that were

mapped out for you by parents, friends, teachers, schools, or other institutions. Because this is short and some

analysis/reflection is important, youll need to limit your focus.This response paper should be essentially a narrative with an overlay of reflection in the style of the memoir. The

balance between the two will be important in making it a good piece of writing. You will need concrete and vivid

memories and anecdotes as well as powerful, analytical interpretations of a stage in your literacy development.

Sources: You will not cite any sources for this narrative.Audience:The best papers will have a thesis, that is, a point that they attempt to get across to an audience who is

interested in literacy or might be interested in the specific event you choose to articulate. A good thesis will give

your paper shape and focus and will make it more interesting to read. For this assignment, a thesis is one that makes

a statement that your audience may not yet be aware of or may not yet believe. Your narrative should inform and

hopefully make a believer out of your reader. TheNorton Field Guideasks that you consider audience in your

writing. Your audience will be your classmates, in that you are conveying to them that literacy event that helped

shaped you as the literate young adult you are today.

Length: Minimum 500 words/Maximum 1000 words.Due Date: Tuesday, September 3rd, 6:00 p.m. via JT Learn. Late by any more than 5 minutes = a day, which is

one letter grade lower. Essays submitted by 6:06 p.m. on Wednesday will be 2 grades lower and so on. No essay isaccepted after 5:59 p.m. on Tuesday, September 10th.

Format/Medium/Layout: You will use the column setting (2-3 columns) in Microsoft Word to make your narrative

more casual. This will not look like a typical Times New Roman, 12 -point font, double-spaced essay. Use a

legible font that is probably single- or 1.5-spaced. Have a title that is not in quotes, and in the line below the title,

type by (lower case, no quotes obviously) and include your name. Check out the examples Ive provided.

Stance: You should be conveying some stance about how literacy has shaped you. If indeed Everythings an

Argument as the text of the same name implies, then your argument should be clear upon reading this reflection.

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